Engaged Projects
- The Underwater
- HELLO
- Hometown Heroes
- Signs of Civility
Public Art Commissions
- Deerfield Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (Main Beach), Deerfield Beach, FL
- “Mangroves,” Liberty Square, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
- “Wildflowers,” Liberty Square, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
- “Native Trees,” Liberty Square, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
Residencies
- 2017 – 2025: Pinecrest Gardens Artist-in-Residence (Artist’s Studio), Pinecrest, FL
- Feb. 2, 2022 – Mar. 9, 2022: Oolite Arts’ Home + Away Residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass-Aspen, CO
- 2022 – present: Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Office of the Mayor, Miami-Dade County, FL
Funded Research
- Co-Principal Investigator (along with UM Law Professor Jessica Owley, RSMAS Associate Professor Katharine Mach, Economics Assistant Professor Ian Wright, and Law Librarian Nicholas Mignanelli), “On the Move: Climate Migration and Retreat in South Florida, the Caribbean, and Beyond,” University of Miami U-LINK Phase 1 Grant
Publications
Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights, Keiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff, 2021.
Editors: M.C. Mirow and Howard M. Wasserman
Contributors are: Renée Ater, Mary Sue Backus, Kathleen A. Brady, Jenny E. Carroll, Erwin Chemerinsky, Xavier Cortada, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Leslie Kendrick, Corinna Barrett Lain, Paul Marcus, Linda C. McClain, M.C. Mirow, James E. Pfander, Laura S. Underkuffler, and Howard M. Wasserman.
Awards
- 2022 Creative Capital Award
- 2022 Grist 50 “Fixer”
Newsletters
- January – Cortada wins Creative Capital award
- February – Oolite Arts invites Cortada to Aspen residency
- March – Cortada launches The Underwater; named to Grist 50 list
- April – Cortada joins Boston Globe in commemorating 1 million COVID-19 deaths
- May – Cortada completes Miami-Dade public art commission; celebrates Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
- June – Miami Herald: Eco-artist Xavier Cortada warns Miami about the risks of the climate crisis
- August – Mayor names Cortada inaugural Artist-In-Residence for Miami-Dade County
- September – Cortada’s museum exhibition, work featured in Art & Object
- October – Cortada delivers TED Talk about art & climate
- November – Come see the global premiere of Cortada’s TED Talk at UM
- December – TED Talk released, watch now! | United Way mural unveiled
Exhibitions
- Oolite Arts “Home + Away” Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
Feb. 17 – Mar. 25 - “Fire and Ice: Our Changing Landscape,” Wildling Museum exhibition, Solvang, CA.
Apr. 10, 2022 - “Underwater Gulf” at University of Miami Faculty Show
Oct. 5, 2022 – Nov. 10, 2022 - “Civility vs. Violence,” Miami New Media Festival, ArtToSaveLives Contemporary, Miami, FL
Oct. 8, 2022 – Oct. 29, 2022 - “Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains,” Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth, NH
Nov. 19, 2022 – Feb. 11, 2023
- ‘Miami Mangrove Forest’ exhibition
Sept. 13, 2021 – Jun. 12, 2022 - ‘Flower Force’ exhibition
Nov. 1, 2021 – Mar. 30, 2022 - ‘Florida is… Nature’ exhibition
Jan. 13, 2022 – Jan. 8, 2023 - ‘Plan(T)’ exhibition
Apr. 11, 2022 – Jun. 12, 2022 - ‘Art of Diatoms’ exhibition
Sep. 11, 2022 – Jan. 8, 2023 - ‘The Markers: South Pole’ exhibition
Oct. 26, 2022 – Jan. 8, 2023 - ‘Underwater Florida’ exhibition
Mar. 23, 2023 – Jun. 2, 2023
Talks
- Creative Capital: Ecologies of Meaning in Art, Science & Technology Collaborations
Jan. 19, 2022 - Keynote address at the Florida Bar International Law Section conference
April 1, 2022 - Keynote Speaker, 2022 Ransom Everglades Climate Symposium, Coconut Grove, FL.
Apr. 13, 2022
See https://www.ransomeverglades.org/about/environmental-sustainability - Laser Boston: Climate Visions panel
April 28, 2022
See: https://swissnex.org/boston/event/laser-boston-climate-visions/ - Speaker, 2022 Association of Art Museum Curators Conference, FOCUS: Confronting Environmental Crisis Conversation with Janey Winchell and Xavier Cortada, New York, New York
May 3, 2022 - Visualizing Sea Level Rise in Coastal Communities to Generate Equitable Responses (panelist)Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island in southern New England, U.S.
June 17, 2022
See: https://metcalfinstitute.org/public-events - Great Parks Summit: The Power of Parks (panelist)
July 26, 2022 - Keynote Speaker, Future of Water Summit 2022
Aug. 8-9, 2022 - TED Talk in London, England
Oct. 3, 2022
events
JANUARY
- Miami Mangrove Forest exhibition
Sept. 13, 2021 – Jun. 12, 2022 - Flower Force
Nov. 1, 2021 – Mar. 30, 2022 - Cortada wins City of Miami Bay of Pigs public art commission
Jan. 10, 2022 - Florida is… Nature exhibition
Jan. 13, 2022 – Mar. 30, 2022 - Creative Capital Announces Xavier Cortada is recipient of 2022 Creative Capital Award
Jan. 18, 2022 - Creative Capital: Ecologies of Meaning in Art, Science & Technology Collaborations panel discussion
Jan. 19, 2022
FEBRUARY
- Oolite Arts’ Home + Away 2022 artist residency at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO
See https://www.andersonranch.org/events/oolite-home-away-artists-in-residence-exhibition/
Feb. 2, 2022 – Mar. 9, 2022 - University of Miami Engaged Faculty Fellows presentations
Feb. 11, 2022 - International Human Rights Clinicians Conference: Art and Human Rights Panel, Lowe Art Museum
Feb. 18, 2022
MARCH
- Can Art Save the Planet panel, Miami Center for Architecture and Design
Mar. 10, 2022 - Opening of Miami Mangrove Forest exhibition to support Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Hibiscus Gallery, Pinecrest Gardens
Mar. 16 - Grist announces Xavier Cortada as Fixer on its annual Grist 50 list
Mar. 22, 2022 - COIL Presentation on Theatre and Sustainability to students from UNC-Chapel Hill, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Queen’s University in Belfast, N. Ireland.
Mar. 23, 2022 - “Longitudinal Installation Reflecting on Empathy through Socially Engaged Art,” Hemispheric University Consortium
Mar. 24, 2022 - Fabric of Humanity presentation during Tec de Monterrey Global Week, University of Miami, Hemispheric University Consortium
Mar. 25, 2022 - Grist Live presents a conversation about climate and community between 2022 “Grist 50” Fixers Xavier Cortada and Wes Gobar
Mar. 29, 2022
APRIL
- Keynote address at the Florida Bar International Law Section conference
Apr. 1, 2022 - Art Salon: Xavier Cortada, “Plan(T) and The Underwater socially engaged art and rising seas” presented by Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL.
See https://armoryart.org/event/art-salon-xavier-cortada
Apr. 5, 2022 - Plan(T): Planting mangroves at the University of Miami for Earth Month
Apr. 9, 2022 - Wildling Museum exhibition opening, “Fire and Ice: Our Changing Landscape,” Solvang, CA.
Apr. 10, 2022 - FIU & MDC present tribute to Xavier Cortada: Flying Solo with Artist “X”
Apr. 11, 2022 - Plan(T) Eco-art exhibition opening
Apr. 11, 2022 - Keynote Speaker at 2022 Ransom Everglades Climate Symposium, Coconut Grove, FL.
See https://www.ransomeverglades.org/about/environmental-sustainability
Apr. 13, 2022 - Climate Action Required panel at University of Miami
Apr. 21, 2022 - HKS presents ESG in Design – Art for Advocacy Panel on Earth Day
See https://www.hksinc.com/
Apr. 22, 2022 - Earth Day Celebration at the British Residence with Consular Corps
Apr. 22, 2022 - Coral Gables United Church of Christ “Arts and Activism Lecture Series” presents Xavier Cortada, Coral Gables, FL.
See https://gablesucc.org/event/xavier-cortada/
Apr. 24, 2022 - Little Havana Climate Town Hall and Community Connection Fair at Miami Senior High School
Apr. 27, 2022 - Laser Boston: Climate Visions panel
April 28, 2022
See: https://swissnex.org/boston/event/laser-boston-climate-visions/
MAY
- Speaker, 2022 Art Curators Conference, FOCUS: Confronting Environmental Crisis Conversation with Janey Winchell and Xavier Cortada
May 3, 2022 - Speaker, American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Conference on Clinical Legal Education: “Telling Client Stories (With Pictures)” Presented by Bernard Perlmutter and Xavier Cortada.
May 11, 2022,
See: https://clinical.aals.org - Panelist and Artist, United Nations Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, Bali, Indonesia
May 23-28
JUNE
- Visualizing Sea Level Rise in Coastal Communities to Generate Equitable Responses (panelist)Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island in southern New England, U.S.
June 17, 2022
See: https://metcalfinstitute.org/public-events
JULY
- Great Parks Summit: The Power of Parks (panelist)
July 26, 2022
AUGUST
- Mayor Appoints Cortada as County’s First Artist-in-Residence
Aug.. 8, 2022 - Future of Water Summit 2022
Aug. 8-9, 2022
SEPTEMBER
- Opening Reception: Art of Diatoms
Sep. 11, 2022 - Global Week at Tec de Monterrey
Sep. 14, 2022
OCTOBER
- Flying Solo with Artist X: Performance and Forum
Oct. 1, 2022 - TED Talk in London, England
Oct. 3, 2022 - University of Miami Faculty Show exhibits Cortada’s “Underwater Gulf”
Oct. 5, 2022 – Nov. 10, 2022 - Clinical Law Review Writers’ Workshop, New York University School of Law
Oct. 8, 2022 - Cortada’s “I Rebuke You” on exhibit at 2022 Miami New Media Festival
Oct. 8, 2022 – Oct. 29, 2022 - Speaker, “One Degree of Change” Conference at Miami-Dade College
Oct. 17, 2022 - Speaker, Press Conference with Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Hold the Line Coalition
Oct. 18, 2022 - ‘South Pole: The Markers & 150,000-Year Journey’ exhibition
Oct. 26, 2022 – Nov. 13, 2022 - Cortada honors first responders with collaborative message mural at Miami-Dade’s Hometown Heroes Parade
Oct. 30, 2022
NOVEMBER
- Cortada speaks at McKee Garden Annual Celebration Dinner
Nov. 2, 2022 - Speaker, Pine Rocklands Working Group Virtual Symposium
Nov. 3, 2022 - Panelist, Sustainable on the Go Virtual Conference 2022
Nov. 17, 2022 - “Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains” exhibition, Museum of the White Mountains
Nov. 19, 2022 – Feb. 11, 2023 - HELLO” participatory art project at Florida Gulfshore Ballet presentation of “Arts Heal” in Artis Naples
Nov. 18, 2022 - ‘Art in the Gardens’ exhibition at Pinecrest Gardens
Nov. 19, 2022 - Creating “Signs of Civility” at Hibiscus Gallery
Nov. 27, 2022 - Global Premiere of Cortada’s TED Talk at the University of Miami
Nov. 28, 2022 - Octopus Mural unveiled at United Way
Nov. 29, 2022
DECEMBER
- Collaborative art-making at Jackson Pediatric Center
December 12, 2022 - Global release of Xavier Cortada’s TED TALK
Dec. 15, 2022 - Underwater Florida
December 7, 8, 9, 21, 27, 28, 2022
Press
- Creative Capital Funds 50 Artist Projects for a Total of $2.5 M., Including Projects by Teresita Fernández, American Artist, Kameelah Janan Rasheed
ARTNews
January 12, 2022 - “ANNOUNCING THE 2022 CREATIVE CAPITAL AWARDS” Creative Capital Announces $2.5 Million in Grants To Support 50 New Artists’ Projects
Creative Capital
January 12, 2022 - Tackling climate change is art, not just science
The Christian Science Monitor
January 13, 2022
- Tackling climate change is art, not just science
Yahoo News
January 13, 2022 - Xavier Cortada Wins 2022 Creative Capital Award
Arte al Día
February 2022 - Miami Herbert Alum Artist Xavier Cortada launches Cortada Foundation
University of Miami Miami Herbert Business School
February 9, 2022 - The Diversity Expresses Itself
Aspen Daily News
February 26, 2022 
Xavier Cortada, Home + Away artist in residence
Aspen Daily News
February 26, 2022- Fire and Ice Exhibit at Wildling Museum Targets Climate Change
Noozhawk
March 17, 2022 - Fire and Ice
Santa Barbara News-Press
March 29, 2022 - How do we memorialize the pandemic?
Boston Globe
May 10, 2022 - How to say goodbye to loved ones lost to COVID-19
Boston Globe
May 10, 2022 - Underwater Project at Miami Senior High school
Miami Herald
May 18, 2022 - In order to warn against sea level rise, students plant markers that show height above sea level
Miami Herald
May 18, 2022 - ‘The Underwater’ Climate Town Hall
Miami Herald
May 18, 2022 - ‘There’s still hope for Miami.’ Inside this high school’s climate change art project
Miami Herald
May 19, 2022 - ‘Todavía hay esperanza para Miami’. El proyecto artístico sobre el cambio climático de este instituto
El Nuevo herald
May 20, 2022 - Watch Stingarees plant eco art installations in Little Havana
Miami Herald
May 31, 2022 - Miami-Based Artist Gets Help From High School Students to Call Attention to Rising Sea Levels
One Green Planet
June 2022 - Ecoartista Xavier Cortada alerta a Miami sobre los riesgos de la crisis y el cambio climático
El Nuevo Herald
June 20, 2022 - Climate change is more than Miami Beach as eco-artist puts focus on western suburbs
Miami Herald
June 30, 2022 - Mayor Levine Cava appoints Xavier Cortada as Miami-Dade’s first artist-in-residence
MiamiDadeTV
August 15, 2022 - ‘Infiltrate through art.’ Miami-Dade’s first artist-in-residence wants you to get creative
Miami Herald
August 17, 2022 - Xavier Cortada’s Interactive Art Exhibition to Highlight Solutions
Hold the Line Coalition
August 31, 2022 - These extreme artworks embody the climate crisis
Art & Object
September 6, 2022 - Climate challenges and solutions: The talks from the TED Countdown London Session 2022 – Xavier Cortada
TED Blog
October 4, 2022 - The power of stories and art in creating a sustainable, just world
LinkedIn Pulse
October 14, 2022 - McKee’s record-breaking year adds cheer to Gatekeeper gala
Vero News
November 24, 2022 - UM alum Xavier Cortada engages community with art and activism
The Miami Hurricane
November 29, 2022 - Local artist Xavier Cortada unveils mural at United Way Miami
Local 10
November 29, 2022 - Mural for Miami Art Week
Channel 7
November 29, 2022 - Professor previews TED Talk at the Cosford Cinema
News@TheU
November 29, 2022 - When it comes to climate, are cultural organizations breaking ground or losing ground?
Americans for the Arts | ArtsLink
December 13, 2022 - Art can engage, educate and mobilize communities to fight climate change
Miami Herald
December 15, 2022
Xavier Cortada, Home + Away artist in residence